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I got to work: SCRAP SHORT TERM TOURIST VISAS TO GHANA for jobs!
On May 1 Workers’ Day, I started a FB Group and a Change.Org petition called SCRAP SHORT TERM TOURIST VISAS TO GHANA. Here’s the blog post! I chickened out sending the group link to the G.I.S., but they know…as I’ve heard from two independent sources that it has caused a stir to put it mildly. […]
DESTINATION GHANA?
May 13, 2013
This is a guest post by Festus Tumi, an experienced, perceptive, highly dedicated Ghanaian tourism professional. The article was first posted on the SCRAP SHORT TERM TOURIST VISAS FACEBOOK GROUP PAGE. Festus is also the author of the continuation of Mahama-Zuma conversation…see the comments for the last post (scroll down). FOOD FOR THOUGHT-PERSPECTIVE FROM FESTUS […]
SCRAP SHORT TERM TOURIST VISAS TO GHANA: CHANGE.ORG PETITION
May 7, 2013
Chris Scott, a.k.a. Madinghana & Four Villages, has started a petition to the Ghana Ministry of Tourism, Ghana Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ghana Immigration Service and the Ghana Tourism Authority to SCRAP SHORT TERM TOURIST VISAS TO GHANA. Sign the petition and share. To date, and it was only started yesterday, we have 25 signatories. […]
THE CASE FOR KUMASI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
May 2, 2013
Picking up from the last comment on the madinghana blog, Ian’s comment, on this blog: “When a yam doesn’t grow well, we don’t blame it; it is because of the soil.” This comment was made in response to my observation on how Ghanaians overseas “shine, shine shine”. Anyways to continue, I share here a wonderful […]
SCRAP SHORT TERM TOURIST VISAS TO GHANA: FACEBOOK GROUP
May 1, 2013
HAPPY MAY DAY! It’s morning and it’s raining here in Kumasi. Decided to do some real work on Worker’s Day, like create a Facebook group to advocate for something I am passionate about….TOURISTS COMING IN THEIR NUMBERS TO GHANA! Here’s my inspiration. Yesterday our son Frank told me he had been talking to a friend […]
HAPPY EARTH DAY 2013, BUT NOT IN GHANA OH!
April 22, 2013
The subtitle for this post is “SUNDAY’S SACRIFICES” Why? Well, Four Villages Inn is located on the road that leads to Sokoban Wood Village where Ashanti’s mammoth logs at sawed for local use and for export. Mostly, the big timber lorries pass by on Sundays when there would be less monitoring on the roads… Now […]
No Political Will to Develop Tourism: Theory No. 8: Visas
March 15, 2013
Yesterday evening, I received a call from an “unknown number”. The person said they were friends of guests who were coming to Four Villages Inn in a few weeks time and they needed “a signed letter of invitation” to procure a tourist visa for Ghana. I said I would email a letter, but it would […]
NO POLITICAL WILL TO PROMOTE TOURISM IN GHANA: THE STAT
March 12, 2013
Time to take a small break in the series-I think I might be half way through on theories-to quote a confirmation that my premise, that the Ghanaian government could not care less about the development of tourism, is bang on! This statistic appeared on the Tourism in Ghana Facebook page. The page comes out of […]
NO POLITICAL WILL TO DEVELOP TOURISM: THEORY NO. 7
March 8, 2013
It’s early on the morning of International Women’s Day, March 8, 2013. 6:30 am breakfast because guests, two parties, are both taking early morning planes to Accra. What else they have in common is that they both once used Kumasi’s big “International Standards – Local flavours” hotel, but have now switched over to the real […]
May 25, 2013
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